242 FLORA OF JAMAICA Poly gala 



what broadly tubular, 2-celled, each cell with an oblique opening 

 at the apex. Ovary 2-celled (1 cell sometimes abortive). Ovules 

 solitary, pendulous, anatropous, with a ventral raphe. Fruit a 

 ■J-celled loculicidal capsule, or a dry 1 -celled winged fruit, not 

 opening. Seeds with, or without endosperm. Embryo straight. 



Species 800, dispersed through the temperate and warmer 

 regions of the whole world. 



Ovary 2-celled. Fruit a capsule : j. 1. Poly gala. 



Ovary 1-celled. Fruit samaroid 2. Securidaca. 



1. POLYGALA L. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Petals 2, more or less adhering to 

 the staminal tube and the keel. Anthers 1- or 2-celled opening 

 by a transverse foramen or inwards by an oblique one. Ovary 

 2-celled. Capsule opening loculicidally at the margin. 



Species 600 or more, natives of temperate and warmer regions 

 of the whole world. 



Flower with crested keel. Herb 1. P. pdniculata. 



Keel without crest. 



Herb. Racemes lax 2. P. angustifolia. 



Shrub or tree. Racemes dense, pedicels umbellate 3. P. jamaicensis. 



1. P. panieulata L. Syst. ed. 10, 1154 (1759) & Amoen. v. 381, 

 402; slender annual herb, 5-12 inches (1*3-3 dm.), and more, 

 high ; stem and leaves densely covei-ed with minute glands, 

 sometimes glandular-puberulous ; racemes terminal and lateral, 

 loosely-flowered ; keel crested. — Siv. Obs. Bat. 272, /. 6, /. 2 ; 

 H. B. (& K. Nov.' Gen. & Sp. v. 402 ; Bot. Req. <. 761 ; Macf. Jam. 

 !. 47 ; Griaeh. Fl. Br. W. Inl 28 ; A. W. Bennett in Fl Bras. 

 xUi.pt. 3, 31, /. 11, /". 2 ; Chad, in Mem. Sac. Phys. Geneve ocxxi. 

 n. 2, 229, t. 24, /.*10, 11; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 336; Blake in 

 Contrib. Gray Herb, n.s., no. xlcii. 99, /, 2, /. 77. P. herbacea 

 minor ifec. Browne Hist. Jam. 287. (Fig- 83.) The type, a 

 specimen from Browne, is in Herb. Linn. 



Broxcne ! Masson ! Macfadyen I Port Royal Mts., McNab ! also Purdie 1 

 Newcastle, 4000 ft., Eggers 1 Resource, J. P. 1140, Morris 1 Cinchona, 4900 ft., 

 Faivcett ! also Clute ! Williams Ford, Millspaugh; Bog Walk ; Port Antonio ; 

 Hitchcock; Scott's Hall; Prospect Hill, 2000 ft.; Thompsonl near Castleton, 

 500 ft.; Troy, 1800 ft.; Harris \ Fl. Jam, 7403, 7911, 7933, 9400.— West 

 Indies, tropical continental America. 



Leaves alternate (but opposite or whorled near the base), 7-18 mm. 1.,. 

 linear, attenuate-acuminate at both ends. Racemes 3-9 cm. 1. Flcnvers 

 very small, 2-2*5 mm. 1., rosy or purplish, rarely white. Sepals sub- 

 petaloid, free, persistent, with 2 whitish linear glands on each; upper 

 roundish-elliptical, apex obtuse, 1-1-1*3 mm. 1., two lower oblong or 

 narrowly elliptical, 1*1-1 "2 mm.l. Wings petaloid, persistent, 1-3-nerved, 

 elliptical, nai rowed to base, twice as long as sepals, '2 -2-2 -5 mm. 1. Petals 

 lanceolate, apex obtuse, 2-2*5 mm. 1. Keel 2*2 mm. 1., with crest of 



